About

Mojo’s (one man) Army is a San Francisco Bay Area based hard rock project consisting mainly of music-obsessed Mojo, former drummer and graphic artist. Major influences are early heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, and modern hard rock / industrial bands like Nine Inch Nails and Rob Zombie… with some ZZ Top thrown in just for fun.

Mojo’s Army‘s 2008 debut single was a haunting industrial cover of Malvina Reynolds’ classic “Little Boxes”. An updated version of this song is included on the debut digital album It’s Hard, released on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and Rhapsody in June 2009. It’s Hard also includes a remastered version of Mojo’s Army‘s first self-produced recording, “The Green Manalishi (With the Two-pronged Crown)” in the proto-metal style of Judas Priest, but with a definite nod to Peter Green’s haunting original. This was first posted to Mojo’s Army‘s MySpace in October 2007.

Equipment

Mojo’s Army uses Epiphone and Fender guitars; Fullerton Basses; Ernie Ball strings; Peavey and Fender amps; effects from Line 6, Zoom, Behringer, Digitech, Electro-Harmonix, Ibanez; various digital effects and loops in Logic and GarageBand on an Apple MacBook Pro, and of course a self-modded classic Russian Big Muff Pi. Mojo does love that Big Muff. I know you know what we mean.

Trivia

Mojo named the band partly after his early online gaming career beta-testing Bungie’s pre-Halo game Myth, where he controlled armies of savage undead warriors in battle… and partly after the slogan “Army of One”, knowing that it was to be primarily a one-man band.